https://sagire.online/topic/sudan/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300Drone attacks across Sudan have killed at least 14 civilians and injured several others, while strikes on electricity infrastructure have triggered widespread power cuts and disrupted clean water supplies. The latest attacks killed eight people in Um Dibo, in El Sunut locality, West Kordofan, on Monday evening, and wounded three. On Tuesday, at least four people were killed and more than 10 injured when a drone struck a fuel station in the central market in El Abbasiya Tagali, South Kordofan. Fifteen substations have been targeted since early October, according to Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese rights group. The Merowe Dam, with a capacity of 1,250 megawatts, is now the last major source of electricity in the country, providing more than 70% of Sudan’s electricity, according to an employee of the Electricity Holding Company. The Arab League condemned repeated attacks it attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on energy facilities in Khartoum, El Gezira, Sennar, El Gedaref, River Nile and Red Sea states.SudanAfricaDronesCritical infrastructureConflict https://sagire.online/wire/3859957d/https://sagire.online/wire/3859957d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300Ethiopia expelled six staff members of Sudan's consulate in Assosa, a western city near the Sudanese border, and ordered the mission closed, according to officials from both countries. Sudan's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that drones used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the country's electricity infrastructure were supplied by the United Arab Emirates and launched from Ethiopia, and that it had filed formal complaints against Addis Ababa at the UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council. Sudan accuses Ethiopia of backing the RSF, while Addis Ababa accuses Khartoum of supporting rebels in Tigray; Ethiopia denies backing the RSF and Sudan denies backing the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Amjad Farid, political and foreign affairs adviser to Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, said the government remains committed to its right to defend its territory but is making every possible effort to avoid an open war with Ethiopia. Ethiopia withdrew three diplomats from its consulate in the eastern Sudanese city of El Gedaref, and reports suggested Sudanese authorities ordered the Ethiopian diplomats there to leave in retaliation; neither foreign ministry issued an official statement on the mutual expulsions, according to the Sudan Tribune. Sudan's civil war, which began in April 2023, has displaced more than 14 million people, according to UN figures, in a Reuters text republished by the Straits Times.EthiopiaSudanHorn of AfricaDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/b5f37e67/https://sagire.online/wire/b5f37e67/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:24:00 -0300About 1,800 industrial facilities have been damaged in Sudan’s war, including 650 factories completely destroyed, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry. A sweets factory in Khartoum has resumed production but is operating at 40% of its previous capacity, and its owner, Mansour Gaily, estimates losses at $1 million. Reopening is hampered by electricity shortages, a damaged transport network and rising import costs, as well as the destruction or looting of raw materials and equipment.SudanWar economyAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/9cc879cf/https://sagire.online/wire/9cc879cf/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Ethiopia has ordered six Sudanese diplomatic staff members to leave the country within 48 hours, according to a senior Ethiopian official cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Addis Standard. The six were ordered to leave Sudan’s consulate in Assosa, the administrative center of the Benishangul-Gumuz region. The decision comes days after Sudan’s army-aligned government lodged complaints against Ethiopia with the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, accusing Addis Ababa of allowing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to use Ethiopian territory to launch drone attacks. Addis Ababa accuses Khartoum of backing Tigrayan rebels, and both sides deny the allegations against them. On October 1, Ethiopia had already closed its embassy in Asmara and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata, ordering them to leave within 48 hours.EthiopiaSudanDiplomacyHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/00daf1c8/https://sagire.online/wire/00daf1c8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:23:00 -0300Denise Brown, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said that there has been an intense pattern of drone strikes over the past couple of weeks against civilian infrastructure, with sources of energy and fuel apparently systematically targeted. At a hospital just outside Khartoum, the power went out and stopped treatment for 25 patients who needed dialysis; the hospital has no generator and no solar panels. Hundreds of aid trucks are stuck for lack of fuel, and there are queues kilometers long for fuel in the capital. The World Food Programme has recorded seven hits on its convoys this year and 20 over the past two years. Brown said she did not know where the strikes originate and called for the message that they must stop to reach whoever needs to hear it.SudanUnited NationsDronesAfricaHealth https://sagire.online/wire/6f5aaa0f/https://sagire.online/wire/6f5aaa0f/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Egypt and Sudan reaffirmed in a joint statement on November 2, after the third round of their “2+2” consultation mechanism bringing foreign and irrigation ministers together in Cairo, that Ethiopia’s operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without a binding agreement threatens downstream water security, according to Egyptian local media. The 1959 agreement invoked by the two countries allocated 55.5 billion cubic meters a year to Egypt and 18.5 billion to Sudan, while making no provision for Ethiopia, which was not a party to the treaty. The dam, built through domestic financing, has an installed generation capacity of approximately 5,150 megawatts and a reservoir capacity of about 74 billion cubic meters, making it Africa’s largest hydroelectric project.EgyptSudanEthiopiaAfricaEnergy https://sagire.online/wire/a6a81cb0/https://sagire.online/wire/a6a81cb0/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:23:00 -0300Sudan’s army said on Tuesday that its air defenses shot down a “hostile” drone that crossed the border from Ethiopia and was intercepted over Blue Nile State, without identifying the operator, the origin, the target or the circumstances of the interception, amid border tensions, with the army repeatedly accusing external actors of backing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).SudanEthiopiaDronesConflict https://sagire.online/wire/fc3895ad/https://sagire.online/wire/fc3895ad/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:22:00 -0300Sudan has lodged a complaint against Ethiopia with the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union’s Peace and Security Council after a series of deadly drone attacks this year, according to Al Jazeera.SudanEthiopiaDronesUnited NationsHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/91b4c53c/https://sagire.online/wire/91b4c53c/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Haya electrical transformer station and a nearby oil pumping station on Saturday in eastern Sudan, setting fires and damaging the facilities. The oil facility sits on the pipeline transporting crude to the Bashayer port on the Red Sea coast. Early this Sunday, a drone strike hit the Abu Hamad power station in River Nile State in northern Sudan, setting off a fire and loud explosions, according to eyewitnesses cited by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.SudanCritical infrastructureConflictEnergyAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/f5e60a06/https://sagire.online/wire/f5e60a06/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:22:00 -0300Members of the Sudanese diaspora and international human rights monitors denounced the candidacy of Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh for the top UN job, citing her denial of accusations that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is fueling the war in Sudan by supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the Guardian; Nusseibeh has the unanimous support of Gulf states but is accused of covering up backing for the RSF, accused of genocide.United Arab EmiratesUnited NationsSudanDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/95fa76df/https://sagire.online/wire/95fa76df/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:23:00 -0300A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over arms trafficking and money laundering linked to Sudan’s army, state media reported. The network intertwined arms deals, commercial companies, bank transfers and cash payments in the supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the Sudanese Army. The court ordered the confiscation of ammunition and communications devices used in the crimes and the deportation of those convicted from the UAE after serving their sentences.United Arab EmiratesSudanJusticeConflict https://sagire.online/wire/89f4ce65/https://sagire.online/wire/89f4ce65/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:23:00 -0300Sudan accused Ethiopia of providing platforms on its territory for launching drones that recently targeted the country on Wednesday and warned of risks to regional security and stability, according to the Chinese agency Xinhua. Sudanese Foreign Minister Khalid said Sudan reserved the right to defend its security by all legitimate means. Over the past three days, drones the agency links to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted electricity stations in multiple Sudanese states.SudanEthiopiaDronesConflictHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/6b6dead3/https://sagire.online/wire/6b6dead3/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:23:00 -0300Nyala Teaching Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), received 36 bodies after the Sudanese Armed Forces drone strike on Dumaya market, at about 8 p.m. on Monday, 21 of them wearing civilian clothing, according to MSF. The health ministry of the Tasees government, for its part, put the toll at 188 killed and 356 injured in the attack on the market in Nyala, according to Dabanga Sudan.SudanConflictHuman rightsAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/a4d73e45/https://sagire.online/wire/a4d73e45/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:22:00 -0300More than 100 people were killed in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, on Monday, with 113 wounded, according to the Associated Press (AP), which cites the Emergency Lawyers group. The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Nyala received 36 bodies and treated 150 wounded in its emergency room after the strike, according to NBC News.SudanConflictAfricaHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/7c9ad798/https://sagire.online/wire/7c9ad798/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:22:00 -0300About eight million children are outside the education system in Sudan, and public schooling is at risk of collapse, the Sudanese Teachers’ Committee said, according to AllAfrica. The teachers’ strike in Khartoum state entered its second consecutive day, with strong turnout in Karari, Bahri and East Nile, according to a committee statement issued on Tuesday.SudanEducationConflict